| CHAD | cold hemagglutinin disease; cyclophosphamide, hexamethylmelamine, Adriamycin (doxorubicin), and cisp... |
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| CIG | cold-insoluble globulin |
| CKC | cold-knife conization |
| CMF | calcium-magnesium free; catabolite modular factor; chondromyxoid fibroma; Christian Medical Fellowsh... |
| COLD | chronic obstructive lung disease |
| neonatal hypoglycaemia | Familial onset of symptomatic hypoglycaemia during infancy, with persistently low blood glucose; a variant form is leucine-induced with hyperinsulinism and variable mental retardation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| neonatal isoerythrolysis | Isoerythrolysis in the newborn animal, haemolytic icterus of the newborn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal jaundice | Icterus which can be accentuated by many factors including excessive haemolysis, sepsis, neonatal hepatitis or congenital atresia of the biliary system. Synonym: physiologic icterus, jaundice of the newborn, neonatal jaundice, physiologic jaundice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal line | In deciduous teeth, a line of demarcation between prenatal and postnatal enamel. Synonym: neonatal ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal lupus | Lupus erythematosus occurring in newborn children of mothers who had lupus during pregnancy; anti-SSA antibodies usually should be screened for; 50% have anti-nuclear antibodies. A variety of skin lesions are seen, which can resolve or leave scarring; the syndrome usually resolves; however cardiac manifestations can be fatal. Some children develop systemic lupus later in life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal medicine | The art and science of caring medically for the newborn. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal mortality rate | The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The neonatal mortality rate in the united states, which was 8.4 per 1,000 live births in 1980, declined to 5.8 per 1,000 live births in 1990. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of newborn infants during the first four weeks after birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal pulmonary venous hypertension | <radiology> With cardiomegaly, hypoplastic left heart, critical aortic stenosis, cor triatriatum, pulmonary venous atresia, normal heart size, infradiaphragmatic TAPVR (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal ring | In deciduous teeth, a line of demarcation between prenatal and postnatal enamel. Synonym: neonatal ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal screening | The identification of selected parameters in newborn infants by various tests, examinations, or other procedures. Screening may be performed by clinical or laboratory measures. A screening test is designed to sort out healthy neonates from those not well, but the screening test is not intended as a diagnostic device, rather instead as epidemiologic. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neonatal sepsis | <paediatrics> A serious blood-borne bacterial infection in the infant who is less than 4 months of age. A common causative agent is haemophilus influenza type b. Babies who are septic are usually listless, weak, overly sleepy, not urinating and pale. (27 Sep 1997) |
| neonatal tetanus | Tetanus occurring in newborn infants, usually due to infection of umbilical area with Clostridium tetani, often a result of ritualistic practices; has high fatality rate (about 60%). Synonym: neonatal tetanus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal tetany | Hypocalcaemic tetany occurring in neonates or young infants, due to transient functional hypoparathyroidism in consumption of cow's milk (high phosphorus content). Synonym: myotonia neonatorum, tetania neonatorum, tetanism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neonatal tooth | A tooth erupting up to 30 days after birth. (05 Mar 2000) |